Jiaying Zhao, Edward Jow-Ching Tu, Christine McMurray & Adrian Sleigh

Table 1. Amenable loss of life expectancy (LE) in urban China owing to preventable injury, by sex, age and type of injury, 2004–2005

Characteristic

LE if injury eliminated (years)[A]

Loss of LE from injurya (years)[B]

Benchmark LEb (years)[C]

Potential increase in LEc (years)[D]

Amenable loss of LEd (%)[E]

Sex

Both

77.40

1.19

76.99

0.78

65.44

Males

75.32

1.44

74.80

0.91

63.57

Females

79.67

0.89

79.38

0.60

67.71

Age group

0–14

76.40

0.19

76.38

0.17

89.33

15–44

76.70

0.49

76.52

0.30

61.81

45–64

76.46

0.24

76.38

0.17

68.78

> 65

76.47

0.25

76.34

0.13

51.18

Type of injury

Road traffic

76.61

0.40

76.49

0.28

70.23

Suicide

76.41

0.19

76.33

0.12

62.59

Drowning

76.33

0.12

76.32

0.11

90.15

Falling

76.37

0.16

76.30

0.09

56.80

a Column B = column A minus actual LE in 2004–2005 (76.21 years overall, 73.88 years for males and 78.78 years for females).

b Column C shows the LE benchmarks used (drawn from Greece, the Netherlands and Sweden, countries with low mortality from injuries).

c Column D = column C minus actual LE in 2004–2005.

d Column E = (D/B) × 100. “Amenable loss of LE” refers to years of life expectancy attributable to the avoidable component of injury. In column E the amenable loss of LE is expressed as a proportion (%) of the total LE lost due to injury.

Data on life expectancy were obtained from the World Health Organization and the Third National Retrospective Survey on Causes of Death.4,12